Frequencies of Deep Time: Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden was painted in a time that humans had to shift away from the "biblical" 6,000-year age of the earth to the conception of deep time extended to millions and then billions of years, which was discovered in the birth of the young discipline of Geology in the 19th century. I am interested in exploring the psychological shifts of the people in transitional states of new thought and their implications and reverberations of deep time and long-term thinking today.

This image uses AI, specifically Dall-e 2 to expand Thomas Cole's painting outward creating a new landscape that parallels the impact of Deep Time on the imagination.

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole, American, born in England, 1801-1848 1828, Oil on canvas